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Antonio Lain, Bristol GB

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080292136Data Processing System And Method - Embodiments of the invention provide a method of authenticating a physical document, comprising obtaining an electronic representation of at least part of the physical document; extracting at least one error detection code from the electronic representation; and using the at least one error detection code to detect errors in image data within the electronic representation. Embodiments of the invention also provide a method of securing a physical document, comprising obtaining an electronic representation of at least part of the physical document; determining at least one error detection code for image data within the electronic representation; and producing a secure physical document comprising the electronic representation and a machine readable marking including the at least one error detection code.11-27-2008
20090199177VIRTUAL COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE - A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical resources for processing, storage and network communications, the virtual infrastructure having virtual entities for processing, storage and network communications. The system has a mapping manager to dynamically alter the mapping for balancing, performance, and redundancy. There can be more independence from the underlying physical configuration, compared to known methods of virtualizing only some of the entities. The mapping manager can be distributed across a number of entities on different physical servers arranged to cooperate with each other.08-06-2009
20090241108VIRTUAL COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE - A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical resources for processing, storage and network communications, the virtual infrastructure having virtual entities for processing, storage and network communications. Virtual infrastructures of different users share physical resources but are isolated. Each infrastructure has its own infrastructure controller to create and configure the infrastructure. It has a user accessible part (CFC) for configuration of that user's infrastructure, and a user inaccessible part (UFC) able to access the mapping and the physical resources. This increases user control to ease system administration, while maintaining security by limiting access to the mapping.09-24-2009
20090300605VIRTUAL COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE - A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical resources for processing, storage and network communications, the virtual infrastructure having virtual entities for processing, storage and network communications. Each virtual infrastructure can be passivated by suspending applications, stopping operating systems, and storing state, to enable later reactivation. This is simpler for a complete virtual infrastructure than for groups of virtual entities and physical entities. It enables cloned virtual infrastructure to be created for testing, upgrading or sharing without risk to the parent. On failure, reversion to a previous working clone is feasible.12-03-2009
20100115101DISTRIBUTED NETWORK CONNECTION POLICY MANAGEMENT - A connection policy for a communications network has a local connection policy indicating which paths between a given one of the nodes (computer A, router A, host 05-06-2010

Patent applications by Antonio Lain, Bristol GB

Antonio Lain, Menlo Park, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110321005COMPACTION AND DE-ALLOCATION OF PARTIAL OBJECTS THROUGH SCHEDULING A TRANSACTION - Illustrated is a system and method for identifying a current object that is part of a versioned object, the versioned object to include at least one partial object and a base object. The system and method further include marking the at least one partial object as a candidate for compaction. Additionally, the system and method include compacting the at least one partial object, where the at least one partial object is marked, by replacing a characteristic of the base object with a characteristic of the at least one partial object. The system and method includes scheduling a transaction for each thread in a transaction pool so as to de-allocate memory associated with the at least one partial object, the transaction to be executed in a non-preemptable manner.12-29-2011
20120011500MANAGING A MEMORY SEGMENT USING A MEMORY VIRTUAL APPLIANCE - In a method for managing a memory segment through use of a memory virtual appliance, data is encapsulated with the memory virtual appliance, in which the memory virtual appliance comprises a virtual machine configured to manage a memory segment in a physical memory. In addition, the memory virtual appliance is implemented using a virtualization wrapper comprising computer readable code enabling the encapsulated data to be shared among a plurality of clients. Moreover, the encapsulated data is stored in the memory segment controlled by the memory virtual appliance.01-12-2012
20120109914VERSION MISMATCH DELAY AND UPDATE FOR A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - Illustrated is a system and method to receive an instruction to access a set of identified data structures, where each identified data structure is associated with a version data structure that includes annotations of particular dependencies amongst at least two members of the set of identical data structures. The system and method further comprising determining, based upon the dependencies, that a version mismatch exists between the at least two members of the set of identified data structures, the dependencies used to identify a most recent version and a locally cached version of the at least two members. The system and method further comprising delaying execution of the instruction until the version mismatch between the at least two members of the set of identified data structures is resolved through an upgrade of a version of one of the at least two members of the set of identified data structures.05-03-2012
20130111105NON-VOLATILE DATA STRUCTURE MANAGER AND METHODS OF MANAGING NON-VOLATILE DATA STRUCTURES05-02-2013

Patent applications by Antonio Lain, Menlo Park, CA US

Blanca Lain, Brighton, MA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120058117NEUROPILIN-1 INHIBITORS - The present invention relates to molecules interfering with the function of neuropilin-1 in the context of angiogenesis and the treatment of cancer. Molecules, polypeptides, antibodies, compositions and methods are provided that are useful for reducing, inhibiting or treating angiogenesis, the invasion of blood vessels into tumors, and/or the invasion or the metastatic potential of specific tumor cells. Additionally, a method is provided that allows identifying molecules, which interfere with the functionality of neuropilin-1. Furthermore, a method is provided that allows determining whether a naturally occurring tumor cell depends on functional neuropilin-1 for its invasiveness and/or metastatic potential.03-08-2012

Blanca Lain, Allston, MA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090215175MODULATION OF THE POLIOVIRUS RECEPTOR FUNCTION - The present invention relates to the identification, the isolation and the use of molecules interfering with the function (s) mediated by the poliovirus receptor (PVR) on cells. The molecules can be used for the treatment of cells having a metastatic potential, metastasis and cancer. Further methods are provided that are useful for identifying and isolating molecules, which have the capacity to modulate PVR mediated adhesion or invasion potential of cells.08-27-2009

David Lain, Easton, MD US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100317933MEDICAL SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to some embodiments, there is provided a medical monitoring device that includes one or more sensors, wherein a sensor is adapted to sense a parameter of a patient and computator adapted to receive an output of at least one sensor and to compute a condition-index-value directly related to a condition of the patient.12-16-2010
20110009763EXHALED BREATH SAMPLING WITH DELIVERY OF GAS - A system for sampling exhaled breath and for supply of a gas, the system comprising: a gas delivery cannula comprising at least one nasal prong for insertion into a nostril, the nasal prong comprising a distal end; an exhaled breath sampling cannula for insertion into the nostril, the exhaled breath sampling cannula comprising a distal end; and a connector for coupling the gas delivery cannula to the exhaled breath sampling cannula, such that the distal end of the exhaled breath sampling cannula is disposed deeper in the nostril than the distal end of the nasal prong, to reduce dilution of sampled exhaled breath by delivered gas. The connected is configured to facilitate adjustability of an insertion depth of the exhaled breath sampling cannula into said nostril.01-13-2011
20120145152INTEGRATED PULMONARY INDEX FOR WEANING FROM MECHANICAL VENTILATION - There is provided herein a system for weaning a patient from mechanical ventilation (MV), the system comprising a ventilation device and a controller comprising an interface module configured to receive two or more measured patient parameters, wherein at least one measured patient parameters parameter comprise a CO06-14-2012
20130096404METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SLEEP DISTURBANCE ANALYSIS - A system for automatic sleep test analysis, the system comprising: a pulse oximeter for continuously monitoring oxygen saturation values of a patient; a capnograph for continuously monitoring exhaled carbon dioxide (C02) values of the patient; and a computing unit configured to compute a continuous integrated sleep score based on a sequential analysis of the oxygen saturation values and the exhaled C02 values, wherein the continuous integrated sleep score is indicative of the patient's breathing-related sleep quality during at least a portion of the sleep test.04-18-2013
20130204099MEDICAL SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to some embodiments, there is provided a medical monitoring device that includes one or more sensors, wherein a sensor is adapted to sense a parameter of a patient and computator adapted to receive an output of at least one sensor and to compute a condition-index-value directly related to a condition of the patient.08-08-2013
20150031970SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING OXYGEN SATURATION DURING EXERCISE - Various systems and methods for monitoring oxygen saturation are provided. A monitoring system may include a sensor configured to obtain a physiological signal and a monitor configured to obtain the signal from the sensor and to determine a baseline oxygen saturation from the physiological signal and to generate one or more zones based at least in part on the baseline oxygen saturation. Each zone may include a different range of percentages of oxygen saturation and at least one of the zones corresponds to an anaerobic exercise condition.01-29-2015

Patent applications by David Lain, Easton, MD US

Jenn Kaie Lain, Tainan City TW

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080244363REED SOLOMON DECODER AND IBMA METHOD AND PARALLEL-TO-SERIAL CONVERSION METHOD THEREOF - A parallel-to-serial conversion method for IBMA in a Reed Solomon decoder is used for obtaining discrepancies in IBMA iterations, thereby acquiring an error location polynomial and an error value polynomial. Syndrome sequences for the calculation of discrepancies in IBMA iterations have a fixed length. The number of syndromes is t+1, where t is the largest number of symbols that can be corrected of the error location polynomial. The feature that syndrome sequences have the same length is based on the fact that the discrepancies are not affected if the coefficients of polynomial orders of the error location polynomial are zero.10-02-2008

Jenn-Kaie Lain, Yunlin County TW

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110274186PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO REDUCTION METHOD FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEMS BASED ON PATH FINDING - In a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system based on path finding, the method applied to the OFDM system uses an ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm and a PTS to reduce a PAPR value, and an area of a computing circuit. In a simulated result, the method can reduce the PAPR effectively, and can be executed by a lower level of complexity of the computation. To solve a large matrix of the PTS, an ant colony optimization algorithm is used for calculating phase rotation vectors of a better quality effectively to achieve the effects of improving the performance, overcoming the high level of complexity of the computing circuit, and reducing the large area of the computing circuit.11-10-2011
20120069769SYMBOL DETECTION METHOD FOR MIMO SYSTEMS BASED ON PATH FINDING - A symbol detection method for an MIMO system based on path finding, which is a novel nonlinear signal detection algorithm called the MACO (Modified Ant Colony Optimization) algorithm in the present invention. The MACO algorithm is improved from the conventional ant colony optimization algorithm and applied to an MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) system. The MIMO system increases the utility efficiency of spectrum but computational complexity of signal detection in the receiving terminals is suffered. The present invention simulates the foraging behavior of ants and pheromone to achieve superior performance and low computational complexity in signal detection of an MIMO system.03-22-2012
20120300816OFDM-BASED RELAY-ASSISTED CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD - An OFDM-based relay-assisted channel estimation method enables a composite channel (source-relay-destination) to be disintegrated into a source-to-relay channel and a relay-to-destination channel and separately estimated at the destination node in a relay-assisted way. A relay-amble signal is added to a sub-frame when the relay node is forwarding the amplified signals from the source node. Through the relay-amble signal, the second channel estimation from the relay node to the destination node is performed to obtain a second channel coefficient, and then uses an ML (Maximum Likelihood Estimator) algorithm to estimate a first channel coefficient from the source node to the relay node. After having estimated the coefficients of the two channels, the optimum diversity combining is performed at the destination node to improve accuracy of received data.11-29-2012

Marty Lain, Sachse, TX US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090295599DYNAMIC PRICING FOR TOLL LANES - The present invention provides a method and system for determining a toll charge for vehicles traveling on a toll lane that includes determining a change in traffic flow for vehicles traveling on the toll lane, determining a change in traffic speed for vehicles traveling on the toll lane, and determining the toll charge for vehicles traveling on the toll lane using a weighting approach that weights the change in traffic flow with a first factor and weights the change in speed with a second factor, the first factor depending on whether the change in traffic flow is increasing or decreasing, and the second factor depending on whether the change in speed is increasing or decreasing.12-03-2009

Michael Jonathan Lain, Oxfordshire GB

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20140335410ELECTRODE COMPOSITION FOR A SECONDARY BATTERY CELL - Disclosed are a composite electrode material for a rechargeable battery; a method of making a composite electrode material; an electrode including the composite electrode material; cells including such electrodes; and devices including the cells. A composite electrode material for a rechargeable battery cell includes an electroactive material; and a polymeric binder including pendant carboxyl groups. The electroactive material includes one or more components selected from the group including an electroactive metal, an electroactive semi-metal, an electroactive ceramic material, an electroactive metalloid, an electroactive semi-conductor, an electroactive alloy of a metal, an electroactive alloy of a semi-metal and an electroactive compound of a metal or a semi-metal. The polymeric binder has a molecular weight in the range 300,000 to 3,000,000. 40 to 90% of the carboxyl groups of the binder are in the form of a metal ion carboxylate salt.11-13-2014

Michael Jonathan Lain, Abingdon GB

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120094178COMPOSITION FOR A SECONDARY BATTERY CELL - Composite electrode material for a rechargeable battery cell includes an electroactive material; and a polymeric binder including pendant carboxyl groups, characterised in that (i) the electroactive material includes one or more components selected from the group including an electroactive metal, an electroactive semi-metal, an electroactive ceramic material, an electroactive metalloid, an electroactive semi-conductor, an electroactive alloy of a metal, an electroactive alloy of a semi metal and an electroactive compound of a metal or a semi-metal, (ii) the polymeric binder has a molecular weight in the range 300,000 to 3,000,000 and (iii) 50 to 90% of the carboxyl groups of the polymeric binder are in the form of a metal ion carboxylate salt. A method of making a composite electrode material, an electrode, cells including electrodes and devices using such cells are also disclosed.04-19-2012
20120135308BINDER FOR LITHIUM ION RECHARGEABLE BATTERY CELLS - An electrode for lithium ion recharged battery cell includes current collectors, a cathode layer, a separator and a cohesive anode mass. The cohesive anode mass includes silicon as an active material and a polymeric binder. The polymeric binder is a homo-polymer or copolymer of one or more monomers selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, 3-butenoic acid, 2-methacrylic acid, 2-pentenoic acid, 2,3-dimethylacrylic acid, 3,3-dymethylacrylic acid, trans-butenedioc acid, cis-butenedioc acid and itaconic acid and optionally an alkali metal salt thereof. The silicon can include 20 to 100% of the active material in the cohesive mass. The binder is mixed with the silicon to form the cohesive mass that adheres to the current collector and maintains the cohesive mass in electrical contact with the current collector.05-31-2012
20130069601ADDITIVE FOR LITHIUM ION RECHAGEABLE BATTERY CELLS - The present invention claims the addition of vinylene carbonate (VC) and optionally also fluoroethylene carbonate to the electrolyte of lithium ion cells having a structural silicon composite anode, i.e. an anode containing fibres or particles of silicon. The additive significantly improves the cycling performance of the cells. A VC content in the range 3.5-8 wt % based on the weight of the electrolyte has been found to be optimum.03-21-2013

Michael Jonathan Lain, Oxon GB

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20150093653ADDITIVE FOR LITHIUM ION RECHARGEABLE BATTERY CELLS - A lithium ion rechargeable battery cell includes an anode having electroactive material-containing particles wherein the electroactive material is selective from one or more of silicon, germanium, and tin. A cathode includes an active material adapted to incorporate lithium and also to liberate lithium electrochemically. The anode is adapted to incorporate lithium during lithiation. Also provided is an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte includes both a cyclic carbonate having a vinyl group and a fluorinated cyclic carbonte. The total amount of the cyclic carbonate including a vinyl group and the fluorinated cyclic carbonate together is in the range of 3.5 wt % to 70 wt % based on the total weight of the electrolyte solution.04-02-2015

Mike Lain, Oxfordshire GB

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20140170303ELECTRODEPOSITION PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF AN ELECTRODE FOR A METIAL-ION BATTERY - A method of depositing an active material for a metal ion battery comprising the steps of: providing a conductive material in an electrodeposition bath wherein the electrodeposition bath contains an electrolyte comprising a source of the active material; and electrodepositing the active material onto a surface of the conductive material.06-19-2014

Sonia Lain, Stockholm SE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110245282Compounds - The invention provides a compound according to formula (I): wherein: X is O or S; Y is O or S; each Ar and Ar′ is independently a mono-, bi- or tricyclic aryl or heteroaryl group optionally substituted with one or more substituents selected from halo, alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, hydroxyl, nitro, amino, alkoxy, alkylthio, cyano, thio, ester, acyl and amido; each R10-06-2011
20120149778COMPOUNDS - The invention provides compounds according to formula (I): (wherein X, Y, Z1 R1, R2, R3, Ar and Ar′ are as defined herein), and physiologically acceptable salts, solvates, esters or amides thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the compounds for use in medicine, for example for the treatment or prophylaxis of diseases involving cell proliferation, such as cancer, and for the treatment or prophylaxis of other diseases.06-14-2012

Sonia Lain, Dundee GB

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110021529P53 ACTIVATING COMPOUNDS - The present invention relates to compounds which activate the p53 response, and find use in, for example, hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer treatment and potentially other diseases/conditions (involving sirtuin function).01-27-2011
20130310382P53 ACTIVATING COMPOUNDS - The present invention relates to compounds which activate the p53 response, and find use in, for example, hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer treatment and potentially other diseases/conditions involving sirtuin function.11-21-2013

You Chuen Lain, Sinjhuang City TW

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110084586LED recessed light with heat sink - An LED recessed light with heat sink comprises heat sink base, an LED illumination module, a sleeve and a transparent board. The heat sink base has an upper surface, a bottom surface and a side wall connected the surface to the bottom. The LED illumination module is mounted on the bottom surface of heat sink base. The sleeve has first open end, which is formed with a fixed portion, and a second open end, the fixed portion of the sleeve is mounted at the side wall of the heat sink base, so as to the first open end of the sleeve is located on the bottom surface of the heat sink base. And the transparent board is located on the second open end of the sleeve to cover the second open end.04-14-2011

You Chuen Lain, Singjhuang City TW

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110085340LED recessed light with reflection board - An LED recessed light with reflection board includes a heat sink base, an LED illumination module mounted on the heat sink base, a sleeve, a reflection board and a transparent board. The sleeve having a fixed end, which is mounted on the heat sink base, an open end and a side wall, so that the LED illumination module is located within the sleeve. The reflection board is arranged at the side wall of the sleeve, then, the light from the LED illumination module may reflected by the reflection board. And the transparent board is located on the open end of the sleeve to cover the open end.04-14-2011
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